Cold Lift
bergamot rind, mandarin leaf, a trace of pink pepper CO2
Nouvelle création — automne 2026
Eau N°9 Ambre Fantôme
An amber composed around its own absence. Worn close to the skin, it reads as the memory of a room someone beautiful has just left.
32% essence pure
14 months in glass
312 rejected trials
Enter the liquid sillage
01 — La Maison
A perfume is not a liquid.
It is a light.
Since 1899 the house has worked from the same stone atelier on the rue de l'Alambic in Grasse, where four generations of the Vasseur family have kept a single conviction — that a scent should behave like late light through a shutter: arriving slowly, then all at once.
Ambre Fantôme began in the winter of 2023, when Héloïse Vasseur — our nez since 2009 — asked the laboratory for an amber with the warmth removed. Three hundred and twelve trials later, the answer was not an amber at all but its afterimage: labdanum cooled with iris butter, a smoked tuberose standing where the resin should be, and a plum musk that behaves like dusk.
— Héloïse Vasseur, nez de la maison
- 1899maison fondée
- 312essais rejetés
- 27matières premières
- 14mois de macération
Essai 312 / carnet Vasseur
08:10 bergamote froid / 12:40 iris beurre / 19:05 prune sur peau chaude
02 — Le Sillage Visible
A five-second loop, kept breathing.
The house studies Ambre Fantôme as moving light before it is poured into glass. The liquid film carries the fragrance's private weather: a warm center, a plum edge, and pale silk around the places where amber has vanished.
- 08:10citrus lift brightens at the rim
- 12:40iris butter clouds the center
- 19:05plum dusk gathers in the shadow
03 — La Pyramide Olfactive
Architecture in time.
A perfume unfolds in three tiers, each with its own hour. Touch a tier — its notes fan open and its essences swell in the vessel.
La Tête
The first twenty minutes. Bergamot picked green in Calabria and chilled within hours of harvest, sharpened with pink pepper — a cold, bright doorway into a warm house.
04 — La Composition
Drag the light from dawn to dusk.
Ambre Fantôme is composed to move with the day. Slide the hour and watch the accord rearrange itself — citrus at first light, plum by nightfall.
première lumière
L'Aube d'Agrumes
Cold bergamot over white linen. The frost note is at its brightest, and the amber is only a rumour at the edge of the room.
bergamote givrée · mandarine verte
Iris Veil
buttered iris, rice powder, smoke washed until it turns sheer
Ghost Amber
labdanum fraction, warmed resin, ambergris accord without weight
Plum Dusk
sandalwood cream, prune musk, the last dry glow on skin
05 — Le Flacon
Nine coats of plum lacquer.
Blown by hand at the Verrerie de Biot, each flacon carries a millimetre of deliberate imperfection — no two shoulders curve alike. The stopper is turned from beech, lacquered nine times, and the number on the base is engraved by the same hand that seals the wax.
- Contenance
- 100 ml — extrait de parfum
- Concentration
- 32 % — essence pure
- Édition
- 900 flacons numérotés à la main
- Disponible
- Octobre 2026 — atelier & correspondance
06 — Le Rituel
Extrait is applied, never sprayed.
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La Chaleur
Warm the stopper between finger and thumb for a slow count of ten. One drop at the hollow of the throat, one at each wrist — nowhere else.
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02
Le Silence
Do not rub. Friction bruises the frozen bergamot and wakes the base an hour early. Let the drop settle for one full minute, untouched.
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03
L'Attente
The ghost takes twenty minutes to appear. Dress, leave, forget it entirely — the amber will remember you around midday.
07 — La Collection
Le Cabinet des Eaux.
Four eaux, numbered odd — the house has never explained why. Each is composed by Héloïse Vasseur and aged in the cellars beneath the atelier.
Eau N°3
Néroli Noir
Orange blossom at midnight, held over beeswax and cold incense.
néroli · encens · cire d'abeille
€280
Eau N°5
Cuir de Lune
Pale suede lit by a cold moon; white iris pressed into sage.
iris blanc · daim · sauge
€295
Eau N°7
Vétiver Céleste
Vetiver cut in high, cold air — mint frost over warm ambrette.
vétiver · menthe givrée · ambrette
€310
Eau N°9 — nouveauté
Ambre Fantôme
The amber that is not there. An afterimage in labdanum and plum.
iris · tubéreuse fumée · musc de prune
€340